Laurence Roothooft

Nick grew up in a youth facility. As he turns eighteen, he will leave, and receive financial support to live alone. Out of the blue, his mother gets in touch. Is he willing to give her a new chance?

Piet est un brillant étudiant en programmation informatique. Timide et inadapté socialement, il sort peu de son appartement. Son quotidien monotone est interrompu par l’apparition de Klara, une camarade qui souhaite s’associer à lui pour un projet. Troublé par la jolie jeune femme, Piet s’ouvre à elle. Mais peu habitué à la présence féminine, il interprète mal son comportement amical.

A young Dutch woman, Rosa, comes to Japan to learn the art of preparing fish from Master Hon, the best fish-chef in the world. Against her expectation Rosa has to work in the cleaning-kitchen, together with other unpaid novices. Here begins her lonely journey through the alien and hierarchic world of the famous fish restaurant.

In this bittersweet satire about what life has in store for those who pursue only their own happiness, self-made ice cream boss Phil 'Frisco' Druyts values his employees more than his family. When he discovers his family’s plan to sell his business, he takes matters into his own hands, creating turmoil for them and unleashing a nationwide manhunt.

The Duch painter Vincent Van Gogh grew up in the family of a stern Calvinist country pastor, feeling a misunderstood misfit, obsessed by painting, while his elder brother Theo left for Brussels, later Paris, and became an art dealer. Vincent tried an alternative career as missionary to the Catlolic Walloon mineworkers in the Ardennes but returns, broke and failed again. Later he'll move in with Theo in Paris, but can't fit in business or society. Vincent heads for frustration and health drama. His heir, a Dutch railway engineer, later visits those places while deciding whether to sell the family paintings collection to invest in the super-fast railroad.

When a nuclear plant is sabotaged, the power grid in Belgium crashes. Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand is forced to prolong the blackout, otherwise her daughter -who has been kidnapped- will die. Can Michael Dendoncker of the counter terrorism unit, rescue the girl in a country that's off the grid.